Imagining Nabokov; Russia Between Art and Politics
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2007. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 233, [5] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: Jan 28/ 2008, To John Mandel--a student of Russia and Nabokov. Nina L. Khrushcheva [the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev]. Includes Acknowledgments, Note on Transliteration and Translations; List of Abbreviations; Chronology: Works by Vladimir Sirin and Vladimir Nabokov; Introduction: Nabokov and Us; and Prologue: Nabokov's Russian Return...and Retreat. Also contains chapters on Imagining Nabokov; On the Way to the Author; Poet, Genius, and Hero. Also contains Epilogue: Nabokov as the Pushkin of the Twenty-first Century, Envoi, Notes, and Select Bibliography. Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (born 1964) is a Professor of International Affairs at The New School, New York, USA, a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, New York, USA, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019). The author wrote: I am in love with Vladimir Nabokov, Russian turned American author of Lolita, Pale Fire and Speak, Memory. I love him so much I went to Montreux, a resort town in Switzerland, to talk to his statue, to pay homage to this great traveler, a traveler so profound that much of his life he lived in a hotel. More